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myenglishisno
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Geumchon
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 Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:08 pm Post subject: Most cringe-worthy corporate slogan in Korea right now? |
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Since all the Corporate slogans seem to be in English these days, it's easy to pick on them. Usually the slogans are no more English than Konglish and on occasion, they don't even make sense. Two 'gems' I've found recently:
At a department store (Emart) in Seoul, I saw a bunch of slogans that went:
"You like malling? I like malling! Let's malling!"
In the movie theatre, the Galaxy Note's advertisement went:
"Phone? Tablet? It's Note!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjytT1z0GnU
Then their are hundreds more that I don't want to think about ("Soul of Asia" and "Sparkling" come to mind). The strange thing is that the native speaker they get to read these slogans for TV just seems to go along with it.
Which bad, non-sensical, silly sounding Corporate slogans have you seen lately? |
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fosterman
Joined: 16 Nov 2011
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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with LG
lets KT
hahahahah lets kt hahahaahah seriously |
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myenglishisno
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Geumchon
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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Almost as bad as "KT Olleh"  |
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chasmmi
Joined: 16 Jun 2007
Location: Ulsan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| myenglishisno wrote: |
| Almost as bad as "KT Olleh" |
The first time I came to Korea after the appearance of Olleh, I was immensly confused.
Kept wondering why the heck a Korean phone chain was called Allah! |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:58 pm Post subject: Re: Most cringe-worthy corporate slogan in Korea right now? |
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| myenglishisno wrote: |
| The strange thing is that the native speaker they get to read these slogans for TV just seems to go along with it. |
Richard Kim does a lot of them. And apparently makes solid bank. Would you complain about the Konglish if they were paying you well to say a couple of lines of gibberish? |
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The Floating World
Joined: 01 Oct 2011
Location: Here
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| 'Everything's gonna be alright and one day we will fly away free with lovely and Pooky story for special friendly bear.' |
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GoldMember
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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Outside the Busan Immigration office:
"Beautiful Busan Wonderful Immigration"
another one
"World Best(insert name of company or product)"
eg
World Best Hemorroid Plugs
World Best Sinus Tubes
World Best Chemical Toilets
You get the idea. |
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Dazed and Confused
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Lightening Incheon! Whoever thought of that should be taken out back and shot! |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:01 pm Post subject: Re: Most cringe-worthy corporate slogan in Korea right now? |
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| myenglishisno wrote: |
In the movie theatre, the Galaxy Note's advertisement went:
"Phone? Tablet? It's Note!"
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Actually, that's almost clever. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| myenglishisno wrote: |
| Almost as bad as "KT Olleh" |
You mean their clever play on "hello" backwards and a Spanish interjection? Actually, I thought that was rather clever. At least for people who get it.  |
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thatkidpercy
Joined: 05 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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| My personal favourite is Korail's GLORY tagline, 'Green Life Of Railway Yearning'. I've spend more than a few minutes on several occasions trying to work out what it means, but am stumped every time. |
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dongjak
Joined: 30 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| seoulsucker wrote: |
| myenglishisno wrote: |
| Almost as bad as "KT Olleh" |
You mean their clever play on "hello" backwards and a Spanish interjection? Actually, I thought that was rather clever. At least for people who get it. |
I also thought it was clever. Hello backwards for a telecommunication company. But it did take me until about six months ago to get it |
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sublunari
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
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| Even the slogans in Korean are ridiculous. There's a current fad here in Gyeongju to post inexplicable signs that say "Millennium City Infinite Gyeongju" (천년 도시 무한 경주) over government buildings; buses are also called Thousand Year Smile Buses. I've asked my wife, a lifelong resident, to explain these and others to me and she is usually more or less unable to do so. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:18 am Post subject: |
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Just passed a truck with this one on it: CHIK'N THE HOME!
I have no idea if that's a chain of chicken hofs or some chicken supplier. |
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CA-NA-DA-ABC
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| I thought Seoul's "Soul of Asia" was pretty sickening. A city using a word play of gross butchery of its own name by English speaking foreigners as its own slogan |
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